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Bent Straight

from Uncharted Waters by T.C. Elliott

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Also written to a title from the songfight.org songwriting challenge.
I immediately thought of a time when my friend, Troy, was working the door at a gay bar here in CoMo. Some guy hit on me and when I said I wasn't interested he didn't take the hint. Or the outright "no." (I feel for all the gals who have to deal with this regularly. So if you see some guy being an asshat then say something.) Eventually he found out I was just waiting for my friend so we could go play pool and things quickly turned nasty.

Written May 2020

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You sure do use a lot of words
To say nothing much at all
You never answer any of my questions
To overcome my resolve

I think that's why I'm a little shy
No, I don't want to get hurt
I've heard about you, the messed up stories
But you deny they occured

And I don't want to be like that
In your face with fact on fact
You say I'm bent out of shape
But there's nothing wrong with bent straight

You can't change my mind with those come on lines
You're exactly as advertised
With your Jheri curl hair but nobody cares
And you don't seem to realize

You don't stand a chance, not even a glance
You know I don't like guys like you
So won't you step back with your pride intact
I don't want to have to be rude

And I don't want to be like that
In your face with fact on fact
You say I'm bent out of shape
But there's nothing wrong with bent straight

You gotta have rain to get a rainbow
I don't mean to hurt your pride
There's a lot of fish left in the ocean
Maybe one of them will catch your eye

And I don't want to be like that
In your face with fact on fact
You say I'm bent out of shape
But there's nothing wrong with bent straight
You say I'm bent out of shape
But there's nothing wrong with bent straight

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from Uncharted Waters, released June 2, 2021
Yup! T.C. Elliott did it all.

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T.C. Elliott Columbia, Missouri

If Neil Young and The Holy Modal Rounders had a litter of baby songwriters then T.C. Elliott would be the runt of the litter.

T.C. has written over 1100 songs and at least one of them doesn't suck.

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